Bollywood Star Priyanka Chopra Goes Global

1/10/2013 3:42PM

Bollywood actress and debut recording star Priyanka Chopra talks to the Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins about her push to reach a more global audience. She also discusses working with the management team of Lady Gaga, superproducer RedOne, and Interscope head Jimmy Iovine.

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I like it ... it doesn't make you wanna say you know what I was pouring into them and it makes me for life ... don't get a breeze as I write to me and ... for that ... why pay for that I'm not ... good for haven't got that yet ... when one trend ... right here in America if you are reality star and your needs some actresses some people better athletes lots of people ... have tried to come up with records of everyone from Kim Carr dash in ... to peer steel and ... are in heaven sold two hundred thousand topics ... most of them do not succeed what's the hardest part ... about the transition into music ... the hardest part I think for me when the ... toolbar when the credibility ... that I have is an anchor ... is this ... I worked really hard on myself ... to own food ... to an audience that and I'm ... liking the movies tonight with movies ... 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Miami ... to ... go to class to meet new people though that is ... in I discovered though he knew there was a complete culture shock for me ... I'm defendable highschool lot things you know we don't know anyone ... is that the ... but I was known ... income from capital and the amount ... missing out of that was rehiring Bay ... it comes to actually like the best of the summer when it's because ... you know my teenage years this is my ... best interest of the Izmir ... were here ... and as high as in India ... and the other successful am back home and I'm ... trying something new here so I feel like ... it's an amalgamation of both causes me ... what I like about it was that you had the opportunity to be exposed ... to American using yes yes I you got into hip hop in ... and a Sprite with Hunter Visa realistic ... he ... is really funny cuz I was obsessed into popsicle and ... fourteen ... okay yes ... I know is that ... I was really into the into it ... yes ... I'm really lose ... 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I would identify with ... and that includes only is been a huge part of this to me ... this team ... and I'm really glad that you know ... how the Tammy is my song with ... me ... how you know ... and and ... and escape ... the been wildly successful as an actor Sunday we talk so much about music really talk more about this ... but you broke in as a TV homes in two thousand to a new one tele for their debut performance ... but you've also written your own newspaper ... that really stood out ... to me at the newspaper guy ... who was ... this column the hero no woman and I feel safe any longer ... for the Times of India ... why didn't you get ... into writing and tell me about that how ... I was informed rating from high school I was only in English which assisted in light of the prose poetry ... so where are ending the sometimes came to mean ... but this idea of celebrity ... I'm ... if even just a new aside all the ... almost nineteen whatever ... in my mind that weak ... this is fine and then just turn into this ... with the people following ... some of them and the weekend ... stocks wind was ... um because we're ago who he was admired one of ... the deduction is is that it and just and ... will be ... a mission minded ... and have nots ... I'm very ... security ... and liberty ... I really get to see my soul ... then Emma and analyze the safest thing to him that ... I mean I was in the Bedouin who came into my ... without in our family and lived ... alone but ... that's a lie that I know and I think it's time for women to just around the world not just a minute of it ... free to ... do this kind of thing shouldn't happen ... so ... I was just ... above that leverages today ... I do you feel comfortable with using your platform now to be ... eyeing an ambassador for issues that are important to you ... I always have my ... life thus far has been slow to be as well ... I ... and and I feel like this live or do they have a certain socialists possibility ... that we don't have ... the responsibility of the ... wake of the territory ... and that and so in the way in an IPO that ... opinionated about certain something it doesn't matter that don't have to listen to me with a ... base hit ... and that might be a way of influencing the voters ... I'm you know the cause ... okay so you have that causes you have to be an actress here he's issued in ... your newspaper columnists I know I'm missing a lot more ... I how does that ... work with your schedule party managers get from home ... I didn't ... have enough money to legume everything it ... traded thing possible ... one of the room to ... room ... in exploring every everything that possibly happen ... below is my question ... can down the embassy ambitious you ... what about live performance we be doing much of it nearly the beginning ... the move really doing a lot of that that that the remix ... ok how do you feel about this because I believe you're a dancer you can really dance ... but live is a different and I am going into the studio when actually ... singing in my ... series Kay ... I'm ... I'm very nervous ... my son am working on the ... ten am I'm excited to be moving ... to pull that off to lean in and don't like ... and will you be seen alive or we'll be doing lip sinking when he was and the monotonous a Hank an upswing ... 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I find I he's ... he's always a happy ... atmosphere and in the studio's is ... an eight day because he is the and ... the chance to ... meet its full productivity gains from an anti ... and I were ... he says makes ... music so much fun and when you call written ... with him how has that process where ... it was very ... encouraging and that ... it was really nice that you know you push me ... to even though the songs that there are other online ... games is seldom good and for me ... I make it easier for you ... it affected my personality ... and when I sang when I knew that I was mean ... Clements said ... all star cast I mentioned ... to a Carter and simpler for people know him from the brats to marry ... her and TV series ... the area to one of the breast and sisters ... but they're geniuses ... in the business world ... you say you don't know much about the music industry I don't believe you ... can feel like ... being around those guys you would have to have absorbed ... some things I mean ... that the firm and ... I didn't have an alumni of the things I twenty ... and and it's up to the part of the muscle is more ... about this to me ... every loan so I can do better at home and we as a team are pretty strong ... and I was taking the decisions of what to do ... with every song women from on what direction ... in general it is ... and though it's of any of a team ... and there's still time to leave the guys I know you had a chance to meet ... baby cap atop the ... future for the last couple of things matter when ... working with obviously the guy that you're a superstar in your own right ... if you ever feel like you wanna be separated to make sure that ... you not associated to watch with her ... I do know that I mean she's an incredible start ... and I hear ... this ... as a performer ... completely different ... I just ... I am using a meeting that as I am ... I think that ... for Troy it is ... too many good people on the inside of the same league ... she is ... she established musicians are really very long time ... and just do it ... if you're looking ... at ... sales your people are looking at sales but ... when you actually record music you have this opportunity ... to put videos on YouTube to get your music out there you're ... the star performer on the NFL Thursday night all been ... that way ... how was getting your music in the hands of people ... tell you as an actress ... it doesn't ... well as actions the city has exposure against ... one current expose are especially in the United States ... yes the corners where ... I'm hoping ... I've come to the United States as a musician ... yes I know that ... that's right no wanted to its mind around ... I am most comfortable behemoth that ... and if that happens and that in America when on a date that's not what I'm ... aiming at the summer and you go ... I'm here with my music and see where that takes the image ... I'm you know if this happens to all it's it's great that so they know what they're doing a levy ... the man is it ... and ambitions grow in the coming of Christ ... but what if you get spotted ... and one of these casting directors are some things as we have a heifer ... we had a half percent ... I would you do it ... okay I'm Asanuma it didn't matter if its ... immense Hindi Czechoslovakia and Gemini and ... NSW added that the man is not intraday high ... good movie I mean you've been in performing for a long time ... you started out Mrs. teenager and then you've got into the beauty pageant she became Miss World Miss India ... I think you make that transition from the pageants into becoming an actor ... I like and something then this will give me my weekend was I was in seventeen years old ... and no change in ... Iran directors came and I mean it is obvious he didn't ... see me and the pardon anyone alive ... and I'm ... instead you let her ... finish times my mom said they are so young ... even if you take a year ... do a couple movies does what are you know is the lexical is known for ... that's how it started and then my best ... to lead in the second one ... when you were young did you expect ... that when the would be in some element of reform ... the initial business ... the academic ... academic angel and ... I was always very ... into ... extracurricular isn't doing ... all plays and music and and and ... dancing and everything but ... I was ... I rarely academic in China wanted the name and the union that means ... yet the key allies of extinction ... has there ever been a moment ... in your career because I know it's a tough industry ... you said I wish I would've ... done that or I wonder what that would of been like ... the one day ... that window ... she uses or anything else I don't know I'm doing this I started this whole seventeen years old ... in you've done very well ... you can this ... mean it's just become ... a fee now ... okay ... and because of that companies have wanted to align with you ... you know anyone the N a record deal you've done all of these things he had nineteen ... companies are you currently indoor cats ... this show is called the Business of Celebrity we talk about that ... one of the top parts about being a product endorser especially one as prolific as you are ... he is that you have ... a microscope I knew all the time a new calf to really represent the brains when you go out ... in the community does it bother you sometimes they knew ... everyone has a cellphone camera when there's always proper Roxy have you been affected by then ... I with ... I was present so I really don't feel ready ... yes I like to introduce the very active person introduces the guard to see ... um I know that being a public bus and ... that's part of your life renowned used to being under the microscope and used to ... the public eye in a way ... I would guess invasion of privacy is ... something you don't like it too much ... so that I don't wear them up at ... ten am ... and I'm playing ... come ... back to ... something the celebrity ... but for ... now I'm not yes yes the ... history of the entire scenes video footage of you literally ... mouth hundred thousand people screaming and interesting people ... the feeling that ... sort of ... comfort level ... when you come into the United States because ... yes you're a star but it's not as intense yet ... I don't see it that way I see it ... however with the ever clever Celebrity Evers has been ... Bumi ... don't lie in the Andean nation that we can and do my ... intention when we get I honestly ... you know your ... potential business for ... that reason which is less KCBT ... I was also payment comes along with it ... and it's something that ... you know ... when we deal with any actor ... they want ... um on their own and nobody ever knew when ... I'm that ... that's a very good way of looking at because more maybe sometimes you don't understand the blessing ... I think it's a blessing and our successes our minds love and affection ... I mean I'm a normal though some of my family ... granted it's only business Soviet legacies ... of families who've been in the movie business for generations ... they are to somebody from the outside to come and ... break into new business in India ... I think a lot time trying to do that ... and I'm that ... you know I'm so mean and that ... it could have happened if I didn't have solid support from ... from friends and whether this will this isn't ... a big one evening to succeed ... I'm grateful for that I think that ... if I can do it from ... him being the most well done ... I'm you know completed our family guy what to ... say that lends money to buy ... you know who outfit for school ... I can be sitting in an interview with the lingo ... do you ... now ... get your career ... what you've accomplished ... do you have things that you wanna accomplish in the future that you feel are ... you know somewhere off in the distance with his career ... revenue our new meaning ... I wanted and ... revenue owing to the scene and became one ... so I can and I were buying my life has ... the power ... it's totally honest treatment ... so don't mess with that ... what about musically I mean what's cool about you is that ... you actually care you love music and we talked music ... and I can tell you that that passion ... what is it personally forget about Jamie forget about canceling story in our bed what is it that you wore ... as a musician with what we consider to be success well I think ... it would be successful for me is if ... a song ... for men and ... some were kind of put up ... which has my where has my feelings ... and though I wanna say hello ... that is accepted that with the home ... of the day ... the ... the ... when you did your purse I remember during the first ... one in the first on them by the way we did the first interviewed ... is it you about it and I was so I was ... excited about the album just because ... the new word tea embarking on this journey in taking risk ... raises incredible ... op ... but the first one wasn't all that bad I thought was that I I can get your and you love ... and it's you know we talked about in the first ... you guys are skeptical he said you know why this is a director ... the one thing that I wanted to do ... which is a very important part of my own view that one ... the well to score now ... get a taste of where I come from ... it is ... more than just the two of its more than ... a meditation menu ... to Iran ... known as Prince and three cents or one am ... you know about the blue ... that's right I ... found on Bollywood songs that ... so much wanted to wear comes from marine ... layer of family fun concert ... I really have amazing music album form of centuries and civil aviation the thing that ... the righty ... hours into the representation of that but ... I just I just think that you know where where the final buzzer going to get to know ... an aside time to do that so did you want to put more of an influence into your new family ... home and saw the movie and hopefully ... I'm and influence ... of where I come from that's important to me when listening to me ... I don't want to be ... an artist who was someone out Sues Chinese ... yesterday reported to be laminates ... without exception they do not ask will tell ... please don't try something new ... would he say to people who say you're never going to me ... there's just no way you're gonna now ... why you need to go into music during an interview the ... family has been called in and you can really tell him that in a note on entering ... nothing is said earlier he said adding that the killing ... okay ... at least to get my backs ... than that to my career ... in the movie that I think that I've that we ... have always been told ... you know are the light use of the most common ... than ... you do and I'm certainly comes at just the kind of unknown to ... them and I'm so that the movie is that Landon ... he said but ... you know why would you do will be like that but ... I know that I'm I'm one am today as an actor because ... I'm I don't see myself as being in the box ... try new things ... and you have a negative ballerinas and tell ... me what ... the really good ... but lately it seems like you just wanna continue to set challenges for yourself ... so I'm about Hires drinks to grow so much for is a person ... so is it just me ... well it's hard to imagine you being stagnant but I think that as you go I'm here to find new challenges ... with the I don't know what the U S ... but that may seem to just pop into your life from time to ... do what is the most important message that you want to get across ... as you break into North America and do you believe ... that you meet in North America ... now I know I mean I think I mean own family in India ... the way I see it is you know whether the group phase right now ... and am just as well ... was going to go ... and I'm not ... for him ... to come from ... and though ... it is fine and ... people ... just as ... I ... live ... in if you like it ... I mean you know that they don't I don't I'm not so demonizing them ... directly on that show for its always good to see me ... congratulations and good luck ... given year come back and let me know ... I come back to the year Grammy ... I'll ... I ... I ... and when Cree artichoke run finally Hawkins ... will see